Poets who know it

Hot news. Last week a state lawmaker introduced a bill that would create a poet laureate for the state of Michigan. News Hits couldn’t resist reporting the news in verse. Since this was written on St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve chosen the highest form, the limerick:

There once was a fine legislator Who pined to make Michigan greater His lawmaking muse Saw nothing to lose In naming a poetic creator.

Bruce Patterson, R-Grosse Ile Determined to storm the Bastille To install a sage versifier Who’d smite with his cursive ire Yet keep us all dreaming surreal.

With a nod from the chairman’s true chairage The bill’s got a swell chance of carriage If the right doesn’t balk Amend just to mock Or graft on an attack on gay marriage.